Article: Cooling and performance/watt

After a brief hiatus due to travel for conferences and other matters, we are returning to our regularly scheduled reading with a new article.

Enthusiasts and engineers know cooling is vital; it raises frequency and dramatically lowers power by reducing CPU or GPU temperatures. The world’s fastest supercomputer shows that thermal management can increase CPU performance/watt by 20% and 3D integration will make cooling more critical in the future.